
The Remarkable Rise and Fabulous Fall of John Sculley
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If you’re a Macintosh true believer, you probably remember John Sculley
(born April 6, 1939) as the man who ripped the heart out of Apple when he
dethroned its folk-hero founder, Steve Jobs, in 1985. If you’re an investor,
you probably remember him as the shrewd businessman who guided and
grew Apple through many difcult years only to suffer the same fate he
had visited upon Jobs. Neither depiction is entirely fair, nor entirely false.
Sculley’s ten-year reign at Apple was lled with promise and enthusiasm,
intrigue and betrayal, recovery and triumph, anguish and irony.
When Mike Markkula ...